He previously admitted feeling “upset” at the confrontation but added: “I’m, as always, very calm and I always treat people with a great deal of respect.”

Image:Margaret Hodge’s lawyers accused the probe of being ‘ill-thought through’

Wes Streeting, a fellow Labour MP and vice-chair of a parliamentary group to tackle anti-Semitism, blasted how quickly Ms Hodge had faced action.

He told Sky News: “It’s amazing how quickly the leadership can instigate disciplinary processes against Jewish Labour MPs, but take years to resolve even high profile cases of anti-Semitism against Jewish members.

It comes ahead of a showdown at the weekly meeting of MPs, where an “emergency motion” to get the party to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism will be tabled.

A row has brewed in the party after its national executive committee adopted its own definition, criticised by some for not going far enough.

Labour has been criticised in the past over the time taken to act on complaints about anti-Semitism.

An investigation into comments by the former Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone went unresolved after he quit the party following his suspension two years earlier.